Scars of Mirrodin.  Looming large over the horizon, Wizards’ newest expansion is set to hit the stores on October 1st.  With the release of Scars of Mirrodin new strategies will emerge and once powerful decks will disappear to the realm of Extended.  With all of the available spoilers it is time to speculate on what [...]

Power 9 Pro is excited to bring you another set review for Magic the Gathering’s expansion set Rise of the Eldrazi. With Pre-release and Release tournaments coming up over the next two weeks and a full spoiler available, the Power 9 Pro Team is putting in a collaborative effort to review and analyze the entire [...]

The release of Rise of the Eldrazi is right around the block and as customary for the Magic the Gathering community that means, Spoiler Season! Power 9 Pro is elated to participate in its first spoiler. To get a broad look at these cards, we thought we’d do another round table discussion (carried out via [...]

Time to look at some red cards. If you’re just tuning in, we’ve broken the new Worldwake cards into colors and given you our initial reactions to them. I will evaluate each card with an eye toward limited play with an occasional word about EDH or eternal formats. My colleague James will gear his comments [...]

Welcome to the fourth and final batch of Zendikar preview cards.  We’d like to take a moment to thank the tireless folks at mtgsalvation for their work on the spoilers we’ve all come to know and love. Below you’ll find the first impression, knee-jerk reactions of myself and my teammate James, upon seeing these cards [...]

Welcome to batch two of the Zendikar preview season. We’ve got ~59 new cards or so to review today. As usual, these are knee-jerk reactions, in most cases, and we try to keep these reviews as much of a first impression as possible. With the exception of Lotus Cobra, previewed by our pal Mike Flores, [...]

Power 9 Pro’s second product the N-Dexers has been announced! We held a spoiler contest to see if any Magic players could guess what the product would be based off the accompanying sticker-art. Winners were selected based on how close they were able to guess what the product was for or how it related to [...]

Ardent Plea – 1WU Enchantment (Uncommon) Exalted Cascade Illus. Chippy #1/145 Well, on Friday Tom LaPille revealed here that 3cc will be the lowest casting cost for a card with Cascade.  I also like the “vanilla” feel of this exalted card.  Will this see play flipping knight of the white orchid, or wizened cenn, etc.?  [...]

Here’s the next 15 cards, along with my initial thoughts within ~15 seconds of seeing the card. Filigree Angel – 5WWU Artifact Creature – Angel (Rare) Flying When Filigree Angel comes into play, you gain 3 life for each artifact you control. 4/4 Illus. Richard Whitters #6/145 My first thought here is that this is [...]

The elephant in the room is the gold theme, and love it or hate it, it’s what they’re running with in this very Legions-esque end to “Invasion, III”.  Some people have been talking about logistical problems like sorting the cards or describing the hybrid-and-third-colored type gold cards, but I think things will work out just [...]

Paragon of the Amesha – 2W Creature – Human Knight (Uncommon) First strike {W}{U}{B}{R}{G}: Until end of turn, Paragon of the Amesha gets +3/+3, gains flying and lifelink, and becomes an Angel in addition to its other creature types. 2/2 Let’s see.  Another first strike gray ogre, so it’s playable at worst.  If you happen [...]

Court Homunculus – W Artifact Creature – Homunculus (Common) Court homunculus gets +1/+1 if you control another artifact. 1/1 At best, he’s non-legendary Isamaru.  At worst, he’s eager cadet that dies to naturalize.  I’m thinking he’s a bit player in a very narrow archetype.  Not seeing him doing a lot outside of 40-card formats.  Neat creature [...]